{"id":1969,"date":"2020-06-09T10:48:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T08:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/?p=1969\/"},"modified":"2022-05-02T12:42:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T10:42:42","slug":"bamboo-the-material-with-a-thousand-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/en\/bamboo-the-material-with-a-thousand-uses\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamboo: the material with a thousand uses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The increasing awareness of environmental issues has led to a widespread tendency to opt for ecological materials, deemed as such both because they are used as an alternative to plastic and because they don&#8217;t call for excessive resources for their production and disposal. One of these is bamboo, a material with truly surprising characteristics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The characteristics of bamboo<\/strong><br \/>\nBamboo grows in the wild, especially in China and East Asia.It is a woody plant that can soar to 40 metres in height and a bamboo cane can have a diameter of up to 30 cm. One of its most incredible features is the rapid growth, in some cases it can be as much as 120-150 cm in one day!<br \/>\nIt is both flexible and extremely resistant to impact. Moreover, it doesn&#8217;t absorb stains or liquids and has a range of different uses: water pipes, fabrics, ropes.As a raw material it is successfully used a substitute for wood.It comes in myriad of colours, but the most well-known and used is very light brown.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1936 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/24_bamboo-1-1024x662.jpg\" alt=\"24_bamboo\" width=\"727\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/24_bamboo-1-1024x662.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/24_bamboo-1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/24_bamboo-1-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/24_bamboo-1-1080x698.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is bamboo an eco-friendly material?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen we say that bamboo is eco-sustainable, we mean that it is a material with a fast and natural growth cycle: just think that bamboo canes take only five years to grow and flourish!Bamboo is not actually a cultivated crop, or with intense exploitation, as it has the ability to continually replenish itself, above all in abundant quantities: every year bamboo grows by 10-30%, compared to 2-5% of trees. No fertilisers are needed to grow it (which could have a negative impact on the soil), and its rapid growth makes it a plentiful and beneficial raw material for the forest ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1933 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/23_Bamboo-5-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"23_Bamboo-5\" width=\"717\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/23_Bamboo-5-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/23_Bamboo-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/23_Bamboo-5-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/23_Bamboo-5-1080x720.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bamboo in everyday life<br \/>\n<\/strong>Then there&#8217;s its special appearance. Bamboo is light, resistant and elegant, and when used in simple designer objects it expresses all its nature.It&#8217;s amazing to think that such a beautiful material is also eco-sustainable, which is why we have added it to our catalogue.<\/p>\n<p>Would you like a couple of examples? Our Bamboo line:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/en\/power-bank-e-wireless-charger\/power-bamboo-rectangle\">Power Bamboo Rectangle<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/en\/power-bank-e-wireless-charger\/power-bamboo-square\">Power Bamboo Square<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/en\/power-bank-e-wireless-charger\/wireless-bamboo-round\">Wireless Bamboo Round<\/a>. They are entirely made of bamboo, with a minimalist shape and the surfaces can be customised with logos or images using silkscreen printing and laser engraving.<\/p>\n<p>Some of our classic USB flash drives are also available in bamboo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/en\/usb-flash-drives\/materials\/twister-wood\">Twister Wood<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/en\/usb-flash-drives\/materials\/razorwood\">, Razor Wood<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/en\/usb-flash-drives\/materials\/limb\">Limb<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/en\/usb-flash-drives\/materials\/tock\">Tock<\/a>.Laser engraving is the best technique for adding your company logo to this material. Make an ecological and stylish choice, choose bamboo!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1931 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/24_Bamboo-3-1024x448.png\" alt=\"24_Bamboo-3\" width=\"1024\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/24_Bamboo-3-1024x448.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/24_Bamboo-3-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/24_Bamboo-3-768x336.png 768w, https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/24_Bamboo-3-1080x473.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/24_Bamboo-3.png 1546w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The increasing awareness of environmental issues has led to a widespread tendency to opt for ecological materials, deemed as such both because they are used as an alternative to plastic and because they don&#8217;t call for excessive resources for their production and disposal. One of these is bamboo, a material with truly surprising characteristics. The characteristics of bamboo Bamboo grows in the wild, especially in China and East Asia.It is a woody plant that can soar to 40 metres in height and a bamboo cane can have a diameter of up to 30 cm. One of its most incredible features is the rapid growth, in some cases it can be as much as 120-150 cm in one day! It is both flexible and extremely resistant to impact. Moreover, it doesn&#8217;t absorb stains or liquids and has a range of different uses: water pipes, fabrics, ropes.As a raw material it is successfully used a substitute for wood.It comes in myriad of colours, but the most well-known and used is very light brown. Why is bamboo an eco-friendly material? When we say that bamboo is eco-sustainable, we mean that it is a material with a fast and natural growth cycle: just think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,42,16],"tags":[56,60,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maikii.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}